Let's take a look at the evolution of the fighter plane from the Spad 13, to the F22 Raptor! In its over 100 year existence, the fighter plane has gone from wood and fabric to supersonic composite ...

On April 4, 1917, the SPAD S.XIII fighter biplane took its maiden flight, marking a pivotal moment in World War I aviation. Designed by Louis Béchereau as an improvement over the aging SPAD S.VII, the ...

Anyone remotely interested in the history of flight will instantly recognize the names: SPAD, Fokker Triplane ... design practice so that future aircraft of similar type were different from ...

He'd earned his license on the Caudron, an obsolete and primitive plane, but by the spring he would be flying a brand-new, 180-horsepower Spad fighter, the latest French aerial fighting machine.

each airplane with its own personality and expression; and wonderment at how little time separated the tentative Blériot and Spinne from the mature and deadly SPAD and D.VII. How in the world ...

The Douglas A-1H Skyraider, often nicknamed “Spad” after the World War I fighter, was a single-engine, propeller-driven attack aircraft that became a standout workhorse for the U.S. military ...